tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post4755620661813208499..comments2016-12-09T04:01:36.840-06:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Will Harris County soon privatize jail, let Corrections Corporation of America manage it?Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86767686260980315542012-01-03T16:09:54.236-06:002012-01-03T16:09:54.236-06:00When you have literally thousands of inmates, many...When you have literally thousands of inmates, many who are in poor health and homeless, some will die. How many are actually from abuse? as far being contained in small cells, what actions caused that. It is all political and all the citizens, including the inmates, are paying for it. It was not by chance that a surprise visit by state inspectors happened 2 days before the budget was voted on, causing the Commissioner&#39;s Court to approve the Sheriff&#39;s hiring proposal. It is not practical to hire underpaid, untrained private companies who have never run a facility with half of the inamtes as Harris County. Read about the number of lawsuits, from hiring sex offenders to supervise juveniles to slow response times in inmate altercations. The training that Harris County does is extensive compared to these small private companies. Research alone shows the taxpayers will lose so much money laying off over 1200 people when tax money begins to pay unemployment, medicate and over 1200 different retirements. Non of this makes sense. And why, for a political war. How safe will the streets be when they move inexperience deputies from the jail and move them to patrol. basic reasoning will tell that when you pay people less money the quaility of work will decrease and training. In this situation, safety for and inmates will suffer. Never has anyone in the counrty attempted converting a facility this big. You will pay out more than the savings in lawsuits. How economical is that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-82813854341594672252011-12-20T22:06:34.512-06:002011-12-20T22:06:34.512-06:00first this now, gifts for inmates and their famili...first this now, gifts for inmates and their families. good times in the County. Nice. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&amp;id=8474147Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-29350806591791348402011-12-19T09:11:36.350-06:002011-12-19T09:11:36.350-06:00Let&#39;s face it, the Harris county GOP controls ...Let&#39;s face it, the Harris county GOP controls what will eventually happen regardless of the laws involved. We have all seen cases get dropped or thrown out by a judge for some ridiculous reason or another, and all the while we knew it was a sham. Politics, just like when the Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina and his wife were indicted on arson charges. Two different GJ&#39;s indicted her, and two different district attorneys dropped the charges. My feelings on this is it was all designed to destroy Lykos&#39; reelection chances. And once that is accomplished, this will all disappear no matter what laws she may or may not have broken. Same goes for her soldiers. While it is exciting to ponder, speculate, and watch, we all know deep down what will happen in the end. Sometimes, especially when big money or politics are involved, we are just kidding ourselves if we think justice will actually prevail. It&#39;s all a joke, and the jokes on us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-6271590157565229302011-12-19T08:39:35.307-06:002011-12-19T08:39:35.307-06:00This is nothing more than slave labor. Do inmates...This is nothing more than slave labor. Do inmates fall under any employment laws. They are working for private industry aren&#39;t they?<br /><br />As employers, the private prison companies should have to provide health insurance at their expense. This isn&#39;t fair for non-prison companies who have to pay all the expenses to produce goods competing against prison produced products.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-55372532831862020282011-12-19T08:35:15.428-06:002011-12-19T08:35:15.428-06:00GFB-- I am going to gently disagree with you that ...GFB-- I am going to gently disagree with you that CCA is being presumptous about securing the bid.<br /><br />There has been/is a quiet and surging lobby effort to privatize prison/jail industry. Especially in Texas.<br /><br />And investors are being pointed to these private prison companies due to the performance of their stocks. On paper they look very attractive to have in a portfolio.<br /><br />And unfortunately, despite all of the laws requiring government buisness to be transparent, IT AIN&#39;T. You can bet that CCA knows something that &quot;we&quot; aren&#39;t even aware of yet, and I will go a step further by saying that it is a movement that will be much larger than Harris County.<br /><br />These companies are pitching themselves FALSELY as the solution to downsizing government. But that is not true. They use government $$ to fund their set up and then make bank off inmate commissary and by competing in the open marked with cattle raising, fish farms etc, etc.<br /><br />Hell that is a guaranteed winner on a stock pick. Think about it, company that doesn&#39;t have to front any money to start up and then shows ungodly profits on goods sold on the open market.<br /><br />The lie is that Taxpayers end up paying just as much to fund these guys and then can&#39;t get out of the deal once prisons are handed over to privatization.<br /><br />THIS NEEDS TO BE WATCHED CAREFULLY FOR THE REASON YOU STATED... PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE INPRISONED TO GENERATE PROFIT FOR STOCKHOLDERS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-25931810402047746542011-12-18T14:40:57.460-06:002011-12-18T14:40:57.460-06:00Investors can make their money any way they wish, ...Investors can make their money any way they wish, but profiting from the incarceration of their fellow citizens is wrong, just plain wrong. <br /><br />This will do nothing to solve the overcrowding issue, but voters don&#39;t seem to care. It&#39;s too easy to blame the Sheriff(for now) and it&#39;s a tuff-on-crime, red meat issue for their base.<br /><br />Karma. What goes around...Jimhttp://jimbigham.comnoreply@blogger.com